Read the instructions to the Exam Task.
1 What do you have to read?
2 What do you have to choose?
3 Where do you mark your answers?
Look at the title of the text and make guesses about it.
1 Is it a story or a text about facts?
2 Does something good or bad happen?
3 Make one guess about what happens.
Read the text quickly and check your guesses.
Don't worry about the numbered spaces for now.
Were your guesses correct?
Look at the sample answer below
Why are the other answers not possible?
Does this question test grammar or vocabulary?
Look at Questions 26-35 and choose the answers for the ones you are certain about.
For each question:
read the whole of the sentence which contains the space
write the word you choose in the space it may help you to understand the text.
Go back and do the other answers.
Check your work.
When you have finished, read the text again all the way through. Do your answers make sense?
Mark your answers on your answer sheet. Check that you have put them in the right place.
Part 5
Questions 26-35
Read the text and choose the correct word for each space.
For each question, mark the correct letter A, B, C or D.
Read the text below and choose the correct word for each space. Example: 0 A every B some C all D most
Family meals
Does your family sit down together (0) every day to share a meal? Does someone plan the food carefully, buy it (1) ______ and cook it (2) ______, so that you really enjoy eating it? Nowadays, the answer to these questions (3) ______ often 'no'. Adults are usually working and arrive home late. Granny probably lives too (4) ______ away to visit regularly. Children eat fast so they never learn that preparing good food and eating healthily (5) ______ time and thought. In some families, each person eats separately, (6) ______ television or working at a desk and the children often eat (7) ______. By sitting (8) ______ the table with other people, however, children have the chance to learn that a shared meal is a (9) ______ for family members to tell each other their news. But if we can't (10) ______ eat together, we should try to have family meals at weekends. It's good for our health, it's good for society, and it's fun.
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